Is unmanned retail an opportunity or a challenge? Why?

New retail is to give the industry a signal, some inspiration, to awaken the thinking of the retail industry", this statement seems relatively low-key. Although the intelligent unmanned vending machine saves the cost of fixed personnel, it will also breed an intelligent background operation system, intelligent logistics management, intelligent warehouse data collation, etc., for which Ali also put forward corresponding examples: for example, the bus from the beginning of the conductor manual ticketing, upgraded to the later passengers using the bus card self-service swipe, but did not cause most people in the public transportation system to lose their jobs or laid-off.

Based on this analysis, "unmanned retail" vending machines will not affect future employment prospects. The development of unmanned retail vending machines will promote the technological progress of labor-saving, which will undoubtedly play a huge role in promoting the improvement of labor productivity and social and economic development.

It's a challenge. Because you see that there are still not many unmanned retail in the market now, the opportunity is here, but few bosses dare to seize it. Because it's a challenge, it's actually quite risky.

If everyone follows the law and follows the rules of society, this is an opportunity.

The unmanned retail industry is not simply limited to the current forms of unmanned shelves and unmanned containers, but also products and models that will continue to iterate and can be applied to a variety of scenarios. Unmanned retail derivatives have its advantages, but also challenges, in the theft of goods, control, it has not yet reached a mature stage. The development of the industry is too uncertain, but it is certainly a technological direction in the future, but whether you can overcome the challenges you face now determines whether the entrepreneur can successfully seize the opportunity.

It's an opportunity. Why? At this moment, if your thinking changes quickly, you can make a profit, if your thinking remains the same, you can only be eliminated by the times, and now the unmanned container is an opportunity for convenience stores to bloom again. No need for redundant labor, convenient.

Technological maturity has made new retail possible. The popularization of mobile payment methods, the maturity of artificial intelligence and big data and other means have made it easy for new retail to advance in technology. Before the technology is mature, the concept of new retail can only exist in the form of unmanned vending machines, but with the full maturity of technology in all aspects, new retail formats such as unmanned convenience stores may really appear.

In the face of these new opportunities and challenges, the current solidified operation model of AI retail cabinets is far from directly hitting the pain points of operators and the market, and it is impossible to solve their actual needs in their shoes. The service provider provides an overall solution for unmanned retail, and in the face of a market with fragmented demand, there is a choice here, whether it is large and complete, or small and refined? In the case of market saturation, a new blue ocean can also be found through model innovation, not to mention unmanned retail that has just started.

In a market where the possibilities are still endless, opportunities will be left to those who are prepared.

"Unmanned retail" is a vision of modern future human beings, which is a yearning and a new model to improve efficiency and reduce costs. It uses the continuous iteration of Internet of Things technology, facial recognition and mobile payment technology to solve the rising labor costs, the increasing consumer demand for convenience, and the increasingly fierce industry competition.

In the face of today's market choices, large group enterprises tend to make a comprehensive layout and develop on a large scale, but the current trend of the industry giants is still unclear, and small and medium-sized enterprises still have a great opportunity to seize the market in advance in the subdivision field. Unmanned retail has always been a very interesting topic, although the market is cold, by many industry insiders and the best to sing, but at the same time everyone is very unanimous that unmanned retail is the future trend. So, whoever polishes the product earlier and takes the first step to play the brand earlier will be able to reap the first wave of market dividends.

Traditional e-commerce companies have begun to feel the bottleneck of growth, and there is more incentive to promote the implementation of new retail than in previous years. On the surface, the current domestic e-commerce giants are in the spring breeze, almost invincible in the duel with the traditional industry, whether it is revenue, profit or market value have hit record highs, in such a good situation, it seems difficult to understand why the e-commerce giants want to "ask for their own hardship" and enter a new retail market full of uncertainty.

First of all, in fact, the unmanned retail format is the concept of speculation in the capital circle, and the real realization of related technologies is far from the same; Second, the current unmanned retail can realize relevant technologies, and our current consumers have not risen to the state of unmanned service; Third, site selection is also a key issue, and street shops have to be approved by the city administration; Fourth, the most important thing is that the product selection is very limited, no one is inconvenient, who will go?

However, at present, many retail chain enterprises are incomprehensible, and some retail enterprises are already considering replacing personnel with systems or machines. I found a suitable reason for the poor development of the enterprise and the poor treatment of the company.

The more well-known unmanned retail formats on the market include unmanned convenience stores, unmanned supermarkets, unmanned vending machines, etc.

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When it comes to the concept of unmanned, the unmanned retail industry will currently save the cost of store staff to a certain extent, but it is not completely unmanned. What is saved is the checkout clerk and clerk, but it is not yet possible to completely cancel the labor of the first link and the first chain link, compared with the previous retail format, it will save costs, but it is still necessary to rely on the popularization and updating of technology in the entire market, in order to truly realize no one in the future. At present, the unmanned state can be achieved for the time being, and the business formats that can also ensure operation include unmanned stores and unmanned convenience cabinets.

Bangcai smart convenience cabinet is good, and the quality is guaranteed.

The biggest highlight of unmanned retail is unmanned vending.

Unmanned at least saves the vast majority of labor costs, but as far as the current unmanned store is concerned, the technology is not mature, and the cost is relatively high, which is not as reliable as the unmanned store of vending machines.

Vending machine unmanned store, profit is mainly in two aspects, 1It is a sale. 2.It's advertising costs.

At present, unmanned retail is in the initial stage of development, while competing within the industry, it is also facing the squeeze of traditional convenience stores, whether it is an unmanned convenience store or an unmanned shelf, in the final analysis, it is still the retail industry, while carrying out technological innovation, it is necessary to focus on the innovation of commodity structure. At the same time, the unmanned mode should pay more attention to the timely delivery of goods, and present them to customers with a plump display.

Shaanxi Chenxuan commercial operation management **** proposed a new retail solution - Xiaochen classmates smart micro-warehouse, relying on aerospace technology, the production of multi-functional cabinets, divided into three parts, gravity cabinet + lifting cabinet + self-pickup cabinet three parts, through the middle of the center console control, to achieve the perfect connection between offline data and online data, in the small program can also see the inventory of offline cabinets and products sold.

Realize remote refrigeration and preservation on the applet side, and regular remote heating.

The width of the lifting cabinet can be adjusted freely, and the goods that are not sold well can be removed from the shelves and replaced immediately through the analysis prompts in the background, and the sales are faster than others. The shipping speed is 50% faster than that of ordinary cabinet machines, and the tilt-shift rotating robotic arm is used to ensure that the goods are taken away smoothly.

The gravity cabinet can sell non-standard bulk fresh vegetables, etc., and users can choose at will when they open the door, and automatically check out when they close the door.

Self-pickup cabinet to meet the needs of customers to pick up goods at any time.

Jingdong and Ali have started to do it, do you think there is a prospect?

It can only be said that if you want to develop unmanned retail, you must have a retail background and technological support.

For example, in the case of Bangcai smart convenience cabinets, profits not only come from reducing labor costs and product costs, but also platform advertising revenue and marketing revenue.

The concept of intelligence is always relative, as long as it is smarter than the previous retail model, it can be called intelligence, and this time the intelligent retail innovation is led by two key dimensions.

One is the optimization and upgrading of the entire vertical operation chain of the "operating model" (led by Alibaba), so as to improve efficiency, reduce costs and improve consumer experience. Among them, the upstream of retail due to the concentration of procurement and the improvement of material utilization efficiency can not only lower the procurement of raw materials and commodities, but also the same value of goods to create greater value, retail downstream due to the widespread application of logistics and big data cloud computing in marketing, management, transportation process to become more efficient and efficient. This allows consumers to spend less money than they would otherwise be able to buy higher-quality products, deliver them faster, and improve the quality of service.

The second is the "technological innovation" led by artificial intelligence (led by Malong Technology), which has been developed for decades, but it has not been recognized by the entire capital market and the vast consumer market until recent years. One is the breakthrough in GPU hardware, and the other is that AI deep learning and weakly supervised learning are widely recognized in theory and application. Now there are many unmanned containers on the market, some are traditional beverage machines (the kind of selection, payment, drop), some are identified with RFID tags, and some use gravity technology to identify smart cabinets, according to my current observation, the most promising is the smart cabinet of visual recognition, technically simply speaking, it is to install a camera on the ordinary container or freezer, this camera has the ability to understand the goods, what you take, how many, how much it can all understand.

This technology will be a game-changer for the retail market.

Can unmanned retail replace manned retail?

There are two things about retail: extreme efficiency and great experience. The extremely high efficiency is an unmanned convenience store, and the extremely high experience may be the form I used to do while walking, eating, and watching (Yi Shijia Supermarket), I think the two cannot replace each other, and there is no intermediate form in the future, I am optimistic about both ends.

The scenario of unmanned convenience stores, under specific groups of people and products, will be a very good supplement. The proportion of unmanned stores will grow, but it will be suspended to a certain extent, because in the end, if unmanned scenarios become a common trend, then many more advanced consumers are willing to go to manned stores to experience services.

But what exactly is the proportion? It is not yet known that we need to see if there are any new changes in the entire format and technology in the process of development in the future.

Unmanned stores can also be done very cool, and many places, such as shelves, can be implanted with interactive elements. Traditional store customers are human interactions, very emotional and reachable. The design of unmanned stores at customer touchpoints may be the interaction of life attitudes through technology.

Therefore, in the future, after the efficiency of unmanned retail stores reaches a certain level, it will become the standard, and the penetration rate will also increase. With the growth of China's economy, labor costs will become higher and higher, and the more developed the region, the more widely used unmanned scenarios will be.

Those who are freed up do not mean unemployed, they will be engaged in more meaningful work. Therefore, the emergence of unmanned convenience stores is an improvement of the entire retail industry, and unmanned is a trend, but unmanned stores are only a transition, not a final form.

First, after the department store, many stores became counters, and the counters later became shelves. At a time when the efficiency of supermarket shelves is so high, all walks of life are using the model of decades or centuries ago? Like the catering industry, it is still the front store and the back factory; The jewelry and electronics industries still use the counter model.

In fact, different industries have different characteristics, and the characteristic of supermarkets is to ship in large quantities. Selling mobile phones may be enough for 100 orders a day, but supermarkets need to have 10,000 transactions. Unmanned is to push the efficiency of front-end flow to the extreme, which will be limited by the characteristics of the industry in which it is located.

Second, the way to realize unmanned at this stage is ID, on this basis, it is not possible to extract too much meaningful data, but if face recognition or other sensors are used, then the data in it is very rich.

For example, with Amazon Go's ID solution, you can only get the settlement data. The user's natural attributes, trajectory, pre-purchase interaction behavior, who the user is, and where the user has been, these data are not available in the existing scheme and the existing unmanned convenience store.

I don't think it can be used to replace such a word, unmanned retail is a product in the development process of traditional retail, based on traditional retail. Unmanned retail technology, such as Haha Lingbeast's AI intelligent visual recognition technology, is a propellant to promote the upgrading of traditional retail.

In the market economy environment, "unmanned retail" is the trend of the times, the speed of development will be faster and faster, it is not fundamentally different from other formats in management, system and consumer rights protection, whether it is online stores, offline stores, manned retail or unmanned retail, are a form of consumer testing goods and services experience, but also a way for operators to provide goods and services, they are the main body of equal competition in the market. There is no one to replace whom, they are bound to run in with each other in the market environment, and finally form a harmonious form of coexistence.

For example, online shopping was very popular in the first two years, from Internet predators to ordinary people, and every institution has gathered to enter the Internet. From offline shopping - online transactions - the coexistence of offline shopping and online transactions, this is the law of market development, and unmanned retail and traditional retail must also follow this market law.

Unmanned retail can be roughly divided into three forms: Binguo box represented by unmanned convenience stores; It is worth noting that the "commissary" was listed at the end of 2017, and received the hardware support of Midea and the technical support of Ali The new star of the industry, it is bound to shine in the field of unmanned retail in the later stage.